Blogger Removes Battery from Repurposed Fairphone 2 After Fire Risk Warnings
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birdculture
A respectable bake. You'd come back tomorrow for another.
Summary
A blogger shares an update about their website running on a repurposed Fairphone 2 smartphone. After readers on tech forums warned about the fire risk of keeping a lithium battery constantly plugged in, the blogger quickly removed the battery from the modular phone and duct-taped the charging cable directly to the device. The website was back online within 40 seconds with the modified setup.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledfolks on lobste.rs and hacker news pointed out the fire risk of keeping a lithium battery plugged in all the time
the fairphone 2 being as modular as it is, it was trivial to open the phone, pop the battery out, and duct-tape the micro-usb charging cable to the phone to avoid accidental dos
forty seconds later the farphone had booted and the web server was back up
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